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I have a color laser (Samsung CLP-610) on my home network, but only want the adults in the house to be able to print in color. It's costing me way too much with the kids printing out full page Pokemon cards

I don't see a way to do it on the printer settings, and was hoping that I could either
a) disable color, or at least
b) force greyscale to be the default

I think, from experience, that this all depends on the printer software. My old Canon used to allow you to set grayscale as a default, but my last Lexmark, and my current Canon have no such settings.
What OS version are you running?

I just searched the Samsung site to see if there was any way to shut off color either from the driver side or hardware. I came up empty but try this:

Open System Preferences, Print & Fax, highlight the Samsung, and then click on "Options & Supplies". That should bring up another dialog which contains four tabs: General, Driver, Supply Levels, Utility. (note: not every printer will show the "Utility" choice)

Click on "Utility" if present. If there's a selectable grayscale option, it should be here. (Also go through the other tabs.) If nothing shows up, I'm afraid we're out of luck unless you can find another driver or updated driver.